Continued Progress
Tonight saw the addition of base effects for reducing barter and speech. Surprisingly enough there are no effects in the current game to do this. Well with Further Needs there will be. :) I learned that Base Effects are Fallout terminology for Magic Effects in Oblivion. Actor Effects are equivalent to Spells. At least as far as I've seen so far.
Adding base effects to reduce the barter and speech were not as difficult to as the effect to reduce the newly introduced hygiene stat. Since this deals with reducing a stat or attribute that doesn't normally exist in the game, I'd like to go over how I did it.
You'll need to find Base Effects in the tree on the left side of the Object Window in the GECK. Right click and select New. This gives you a dialog. In this dialog, you'll need to select Script for the Effect Archetype. Since my effect is detrimental you'll also need to tick off the "Detrimental" flag. Recover is selected for other similar effects so I chose it as well as Self for the same reasons.
Finally you'll need to create a new script. This can be done by clicking on the pencil icon in the toolbar of the main GECK window. From the widow that pops up you'll need to select Script->New. Be sure to also set the Script Type to Effect in the drop down menu at the top of the window.
Sadly, and much to my dismay, the GECK still shows the scripts in a proportional font. This drives me insane since almost all coding is universally done with a fixed width font. Ho-hum. Such is the way of things I suppose. Once this is done you can fill in the script with appropriate values. For now, I only have descriptive text because I am still searching on a way to determine the magnitude applied when the effect is in place.
These base effects are added as effects that occur when Actor Effects, or Spells, like my PoorHygiene800, are applied to a character. As you can see, someone with a hygiene score of 800 really really really needs to bathe. :) Being as this is one step from the highest, most revolting status, one can attain the penalties are fairly high.
